On 5/25/2011 1:17 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 18:46 +0200, Charles-François Natali a écrit : >> While we're at it, adding a "recursive" argument to this shutil.chown >> could also be useful. > > I don't like the idea of a recursive flag. I would prefer a "map-like" > function to "apply" a function on all files of a directory. Something > like shutil.apply_recursive(shutil.chown)... > > ... maybe with options to choose between deep-first search and > breadth-first search, filter (filenames, file size, files only, > directories only, other attributes?), directory before files (may be > need for chmod(0o000)), etc.
You can do all of this with an appropriate application of os.walk(). Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
